MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2
By Ramona on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 1:39pm |From the article:
The rifle had been given to the boy last year and was kept in the corner of a room. The parents didn't realize a shell had been left in it.
"It's a Crickett," he told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "It's a little rifle for a kid. ...The little boy's used to shooting the little gun."
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The Crickett is just one of many child-sized rifles on the market and is sold with the tag line 'My First Rifle.'
It comes in a number of child-friendly barrel designs and colors, including hot pink for little girls. A host of accessories are also available, like story books and a gun-toting beanie baby of the rifle's mascot, a cartoonish cricket.
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I'm outraged, grieving and speechless. Except to say our stupidity is killing us.
by Ramona on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 1:41pm
I just caught this.
Nobody is to be charged?
I mean someone puts their kid in the middle of the street and the kid is run over?
You better bet there would be charges filed.
Child endangerment.
You never give a five year old a twenty-two for chrissakes.
by Richard Day on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 3:59pm
The fact is neither the Constitution nor US Courts have set a lower age limit for the full unencumbered exercise of personal 2nd Amendment gun rights, the First Freedom, guaranteed to this or any 5 year old by the Founding Fathers.
Maybe if the 2 year old had a weapon it would have turned out different?
by NCD on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:23pm
Well you already know NCD this subject bothers me greatly since I have written about it more than once!
The Daisy BB Gun in Christmas story was something I grew up with. I did not have one; hell I would have shot my brothers for chrissakes! But a lot of kids in the fifties had this strange object in their homes.
But damn!
Should a five year old drive a car or have access to a car?
Should a five year old have access to a stun gun or pepper spray?
These parents were negligent and negligence can at times have criminal consequences!
I may come back to this subject later on.
This really bothers me!
by Richard Day on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:32pm
...maybe they were teaching him to shoot bad guys?
The county official said it was just a 'crazy accident'.
Two toddlers in a room with a loaded gun, what could go wrong?
Mom should be thankful the little fella didn't have a 35 round magazine, she might have been next.
by NCD on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 7:18pm
Yeah, I was thinking about this and I hereby render unto NCD the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me. hahahahah
The stupidity....
Oh I must stop!
by Richard Day on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 7:48pm
I hope there will be pressure on this community to file charges against the parents. As I said in my earlier thoughts on gun safety, I don't care how sorry they are--they should go to jail.
If the parents had left an open bottle of ammonia and another of bleach in the corner, in child-friendly colors, there would be charges--why not for this???????
by erica20 on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:53pm
This is the Crickett Kids Corner. Every kid should own a rifle. Come on. . .they're just toys. What could happen?
by Ramona on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:07pm
The testimonials are even more scary when you realize the ages of some of the children using the weapons. I'm not a lawyer but it seems strange that pajamas have to be fire retardant, but loaded guns are ok.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 12:40am
OH SHITE!
Damn!
You must have just written this!
Yeah!
Fire retardant pajamas.
Damn!
I do not know what else to add to this!
Goddamn I am so mad!
We cannot do a damn thing about this really except to punish parents for being so grossly negligent.
Guns are easier to purchase than dope in California for chrissakes.
Oh I am getting too mad....
by Richard Day on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 12:50am
It appears that the Boy Scout of America don't have an age criteria for shooting courses.The age appears to be based on local law and class size limits. Age is not amount the things listed in badge requirements in their online information.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 10:01am
Too many parents coddle their children now days. I'm planning on giving my 5 year old niece a circular saw and a stack of 2 / 4's to cut up. Not only will she have fun cutting them up into little pieces she'll be learning a valuable skill.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 1:40am
I'd suggest acetylene blowtorch instead, with optional face screen - moves her up the union wage scale (if such a thing still exists), and what she can't cut through, she can probably weaken structurally so it comes down anyway.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 4:23am
The Crickett website is gone for now. They either took it down or had a hack attack. Doesn't look like a temporary glitch because the home page http://www.crickett.com/ takes you to the server test page. Mother Jones posted some pix from the site before it went bye bye which is the only way I could see examples of what you guys were talking about.
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 2:41pm
The website is there now.
by Ramona on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 7:11pm
Giving a five-year old his own rifle is definitely dumb parenting. Leaving it loaded and available in a corner next to his bb-gun is the real crime and just plain stupid.
Just because they have not yet been charged with a crime does not mean they will not be. They may even lose custody of their son. Whatever happens legally, the worst for them will be living with it. Even the five-year old.
Makes me more sad than angry.
by EmmaZahn on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 10:43am
Yeah I grieve for that 5 year-old. He will have to carry this burden of guilt to his grave!
by Richard Day on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 11:25am
I agree, Emma. It's so very sad. The parents and the five-year-old will live with this forever. I only hope it wakes people up to the fact that guns are not toys, no matter how much they want to use them as playthings.
by Ramona on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 7:14pm